Senior Technical Artist
Epic Games
Cary, NC, USA
Job type: Permanent
Job Description
What makes us Epic?
At the core of Epic’s success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it’s building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we’re always innovating.
Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.
Art at Epic
What we do
Push your artistic talent to the limit on a team of world-class environment, character and concept artists who strive to innovate and inspire.
What you’ll do
Epic is looking for experienced Tech Artists to join our team working on Fortnite. A successful candidate should have a broad knowledge of art creation for games. They should understand modeling, texturing and animation fundamentals. They should be able to combine geometry, materials, effects and UE4 Blueprints to create complex art. They should be able to work with a large team supporting the more technical aspects of creating art.
In this role, you will
Create complex materials for characters, weapons and environments.
Establish workflows and tools for other artists to utilize when making unique assets.
Execute on a range of visual effects styles from realistic to stylized
Work with engineers and artists to optimize content for many platforms.
Skills & Requirements
What we’re looking for
Must have a strong reel/portfolio showing executed game tech art.
Good understanding of PBR principles and material editors
Ability to pull many different asset types together to create art for a game.
Experience modeling and using texturing packagers such as Substance Designer and Painter
Abilities in a secondary areas such as modeling, skinning, animation, or lighting
Desire and knowledge of how to push Unreal Engine further.
Desire to work with a team, supporting other content creators such as modelers, texture artists etc.
Familiarity with the Unreal 4 Engine art pipeline
Experience working on multiple platforms
Scripting experience Blueprint or other
You’re user-focused, passionate, scrappy, solutions-focused, and innovative. These traits equal success at Epic and influence everything we do.
Additional Information
- Relocation assistance is offered
How to Apply
Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic:
https://epicgames.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/Epic_Games/job/Cary-NC/Senior-Technical-Artist_R4155-1
About the Company
Founded in 1991, Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of 3D engine technology. Epic operates Fortnite, one of the world’s largest games with over 350 million accounts and 2.5 billion friend connections. Epic also develops Unreal Engine, which powers the world’s leading games and is also adopted across industries such as film and television, architecture, automotive, manufacturing, and simulation.
Through Unreal Engine, Epic Games Store, and Epic Online Services, Epic provides an end-to-end digital ecosystem for developers and creators to build, distribute, and operate games and other content. Epic has over 40 offices worldwide with headquarters in Cary, North Carolina.